Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...side of his bed. The pain subsided after a moment, and I could call Andrei and lie down. That was the start of constant nitroglycerine and other medicine. I still had bouts of nausea and incredible weakness. Since I am a doctor, I did everything for myself -- patient and doctor at the same time. I knew it was a heart attack, but I tried to deny it subconsciously...
...greatest achievement during hisadministration, Wacker said, is improvedcommunication between the health care service andthe Harvard community, citing the installation ofa full-time patient advocate and a studentadvisory group...
...errant signals to the bladder's nerves or relax overly taut bladder tissue. Artificial sphincters opened by squeezing a small pump have been successfully implanted for more than a decade. Scientists at the University of California at San Francisco are testing a bladder pacemaker. Using a remote control, the patient can send signals to implanted electrodes, activating nerves to the bladder. D. Wayne Smith, 62, who has had one for three years, delightedly calls it "my key out of jail...
...investigator into the varieties of religious experience, recalled one of his most terrifying moments: "Suddenly there fell upon me without any warning, just as if it came out of the darkness, a horrible fear of my own existence. Simultaneously there arose in my mind the image of an epileptic patient . . . a black-haired youth with greenish skin . . . That shape am I, I felt, potentially." This was the image of monstrosity that is only a chromosome away. Henry added another kind of apparition. In The Turn of the Screw he presented a governess and a ghostly valet...
...goal is to evaluate the therapy on 40 patients," said Kurnick. "And we just began testing a patient with kidney tumors...